Government IT

WTF Is Safer Internet Day?

The Internet is an endless resource for education, entertainment and discovery. But there are dangers too

8 years ago

Free Inverness Wi-Fi Goes Live As Hebrides Project Gets 30Mbps Broadband Boost

Free Wi-Fi hopes to aid businesses in Inverness while island of Tiree community broadband project gets £91,000 upgrade to 30Mbps…

8 years ago

Government Must Use AI To Cut 250,000 Jobs, Says Reform

Think tank Reform urges the use of artificial intelligence, chat bots and drones to automate everything from public-sector administration to…

8 years ago

US House Approves Bill Requiring Warrant To Search Old Emails

Tech companies urged the Senate to back the measure tightening controls on law enforcement email searches

8 years ago

BT Publicly Supports Google In EU Antitrust Battle

BT lends support to Google's Android OS over potential fears of Apple dominance

8 years ago

IT Life: Mark Settle, Okta CIO

Okta CIO Mark Settle talks his career in IT, cloud adoption and alternative career in teaching

8 years ago

Beacons And Security Risks: Digital Transformation In Education

The education industry is quietly going through a digital transformation of its own, as we recently found out

8 years ago

Brexit Means Brits Won’t Benefit From End Of EU Roaming Charges

Leaked documents confirm suspicions that end of EU roaming wont apply to UK mobile users unless government agrees deal

8 years ago

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Takes First Step To Rule-Making Transparency

ANALYSIS: Newly-appointed Ajit Pai is taking the first steps toward taking the secrecy out of FFC's rule-making process

8 years ago

Apple, Google, and Microsoft Back Legal Challenge Against Trump Immigration Order

A cohort of tech firms said the order causes economic damage to the US

8 years ago

Google Vows To Fight After Being Ordered To Hand Over Foreign Emails

'We will appeal,' says Google after latest round of tech vs government court battles

8 years ago

Government Digital Service Saves £339m Of £3.3bn In 2015/16

GDS helped departments reduce costs by implementing spending controls and managing strategic ICT implementation, the government said

8 years ago

Defence Secretary: Putin’s Cyber Attacks Seek To Destabilise West

Defence Secretary Fallon says Russian hackers are targetting critical Western infrastructure

8 years ago

Tech Quiz: The Week In Review (3rd February 2017)

Trump. Cloud. Gadgets. What do you remember about the week in technology?

8 years ago

Ransomware Attack Tongue-Ties Licking County Comms And Computers

Sucks to be Licking County right now after major systems shutdown

8 years ago

Cross Channel: New VMware UK Channel Chief, IT Pros Distracted By Support

All the news from the world of the IT channel, including VMware changes and the abosorption of EuroCloud UK by…

8 years ago

MPs Slam ‘Dysfunctional’ Governmental Breach Reporting

Parliamentary committee also warns of real skill shortage to tackle growing cyber menace

8 years ago

Does Virtual Reality Have A Place In The Classroom?

IN DEPTH: The short answer is 'yes.' The long answer? Well, that's a bit more complicated...

8 years ago

Tech Quiz: Technology And Sports Sponsorship

Can you guess the sports teams that technology firms have sponsored over the years?

8 years ago

A Third Of NHS Trusts Targeted By Ransomware Attacks

FOI report further highlights the prevalence of ransomware targeting the healthcare sector

8 years ago

Competition: WIN Tickets To Mobile World Congress 2017!

Want to be at MWC 2017? Enter our contest and win free tickets!

8 years ago

Former Union Boss Joins BT Openreach Board Amid Breakup Pressure

New appointees for BT Openreach board to guide organisation amid intense seperation pressure

8 years ago

EU Roaming Charges Will Be Abolished In June

EU finalises wholesale regulations so roaming can end on 15 June 2017

8 years ago

Dropbox CTO: Education Is Essential To Plugging Tech Skills Gap

INTERVIEW: Aditya Agarwal explains why computer science should be a core component of the education curriculum

8 years ago

BT Blames Wales Broadband Delays On Access Problems

BT says access and digging permission are what's stopping it from connecting another 400,000 premises in rural Wales

8 years ago

Telcos Hope To Erode US Customer Privacy Protection But EU Privacy Shield Is Safe

UK and EU privacy regulators expressed concern over the new US administration's data-protection policies

8 years ago

Ransomware Disables Washington DC Police Cameras

The attack on city surveillance cameras occurred eight days before the presidential inauguration

8 years ago

Dropbox Execs Slam Trump For ‘Un-American’ Immigrant Orders

Dropbox CEO and CTO condemn Trump for immigration orders and call for support

8 years ago

IT Life: Colin Lees, BT Business & Public Sector CIO

Colin Lees talks BT-EE integration, the cloud services and his love of Spotify

8 years ago

HMRC Takes Over Government Gateway Phase-Out

HMRC said it may extend its own in-house identity verification scheme to other departments once the Government Gateway is terminated

8 years ago